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plus, a modern day five story ripped through the pages of a tom clancey novel. "early today" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "early today" for friday, december 7th, 2012. >>> good mornings,er one. i'm lynn berry. we're going to start with breaking news out of japan. a strong 7.3 earthquake has struck off the country's northeast coast beneath the sea bed. it shook buildings as far as tokyo and warnings were issued for miyagi prefecture. there's no risk for a widespread tsunami. we'll bring you the very latest. >>> elsewhere, all eyes are on cairo this morning as turmoil has once again overtaken egypt's capitol, this time in response to a political explosive power grab by the president, mohammed morsi. right now army tanks surround the presidential palace as thousands of protesters shout topple the regime, the same chant heard during the regime of hosni mubarak. in a tv show morsi said absolute powers he granted himself will expire with a vote on december 15th but that did little to silence his opponents who plan a million man march in cairo's tahrir squar
plus, a modern day five story ripped through the pages of a tom clancey novel. "early today" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "early today" for friday, december 7th, 2012. >>> good mornings,er one. i'm lynn berry. we're going to start with breaking news out of japan. a strong 7.3 earthquake has struck off the country's northeast coast beneath the sea bed. it shook buildings as far as tokyo and warnings were issued for miyagi prefecture. there's no risk...
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the secretary of state gets to relax, get her head clear, read a novel or two, think about something other than work. how long does she have? >> lining up important fundraisers and clearing the field if that can be done, maximum, a year, and that would give her enough time to rest, regroup, decide, does she want to go through it because if you're going to do it the second time, you gotta win. she went through the hardest thing and has a place in history now. you can't come in second a second time. it would be tough. when you talk about new york, she's from new york. if you talk about biden, president clinton eclipsed the vice president on the trail this time so they have built-in buffers around those figures. chris: 12-year commitment, runs for four years, serves for eight, big decision. >> she'll be in her late 60's. i saw her make the speech -- to a gathering of americans and israelis and it was the best speech i've ever seen her give because she did something that bill clinton knows how to do and very few other politicians do which is to establish in a room of hundreds of people a
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coming up on news 4 today, the steamy novel turning into a textbook for college students in our area. >>> and check this out. flakes falling right now on the storm team 4 weather deck on nebraska avenue here in northwest washington. >>> the book "50 shades of grey" has become a cultural phenomenon, selling millions of copies around the world. now college students will be able to talk about the book and get credit for it. next semester, american university will offer a course about the popular trilogy. sex educator and professor steph woods will use the book to discuss issues of domestic violence and sexuality as well as how social media is used in promoting successful novels. and if you're interested in this class, sorry, too late, it's already full and has a waiting list. >> did you see how many people were reading the book? >>> the nhl lookout could soon be over. the league and players union are expected to talk via conference call today. the league reportedly made changes to its offer to the players. there's so much optimism, there's talk the regular season could start on january 1
coming up on news 4 today, the steamy novel turning into a textbook for college students in our area. >>> and check this out. flakes falling right now on the storm team 4 weather deck on nebraska avenue here in northwest washington. >>> the book "50 shades of grey" has become a cultural phenomenon, selling millions of copies around the world. now college students will be able to talk about the book and get credit for it. next semester, american university will offer...
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issues of domestic violence and sexuality as well as how social media is used in promoting successful novels. if you're interested in the class, sorry, too late. it's already full. there's a waiting list. >> a lot of interesting conversations, discussions to come out of that one. >>> well, the nhl lockout could soon be over. the league and players union are expected to talk via conference call today in hopes of saving the season. the league reportedly made changes to its offer to the players, and the two sides will meet again tomorrow. in fact, there's so much optimism about this latest proposal, there's talk that the regular season could start as early as january 19th. the league already canceled more than half the season, but would change the schedule to allow at least a 48-game season. a lot of fans waiting a long time for this. >>> and moving from the ice to the gridiron, rg3 picks up another award and the wizards go for two wins in a row tonight. >> here's this morning's "sports minute." >> good saturday morning, everyone. your sports minute starts with the biggest game d.c. has seen in
issues of domestic violence and sexuality as well as how social media is used in promoting successful novels. if you're interested in the class, sorry, too late. it's already full. there's a waiting list. >> a lot of interesting conversations, discussions to come out of that one. >>> well, the nhl lockout could soon be over. the league and players union are expected to talk via conference call today in hopes of saving the season. the league reportedly made changes to its offer to...
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>> i don't know when it decided to turn the novel. i remember when i was back in college, chatting with one of my professors after class one day, about what if lincoln had survived over the years a lot of people have spent years about that. you find that in some history books as well. but i in the story where the assassination is failed, i can tell you when it came to me. once again to be i knew i had to put everything aside and write it. >> you're a law professor correct? so the courtroom drama part, did that come easy to? >> i don't know, for me no novel is really easy to write but it is true, this would fit into some of my interests as a scholar. i write about presidential power. i write about war. i've written a lot about lincoln over the years, and so taking that come those ideas, put them into fiction but if you think about it, lincoln did do things during the civil war that raise interesting questions. lincoln did suspend habeas corpus. in some cases subject to the military court-martial. my notion was what if a different proce
>> i don't know when it decided to turn the novel. i remember when i was back in college, chatting with one of my professors after class one day, about what if lincoln had survived over the years a lot of people have spent years about that. you find that in some history books as well. but i in the story where the assassination is failed, i can tell you when it came to me. once again to be i knew i had to put everything aside and write it. >> you're a law professor correct? so the...
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serena loves to read novels and have people in it like herself and she likes novels set in london and around about now, in 1972. she wants to see herself reflected back in, and her world reflected back and that is an impulse i actually share too. >> tom, her lover hates all of that kind of writing, he likes, you know, thomas p. ihchot and he likes john bath and gaddis, the great american experimental writers. >> they hate each other's fiction. so i thought the purpose of sweet tooth, the novel, was for me to write the book that they would both love, that would have the tricks, but it would have a flesh and blood impelling fair tive that the reader would have to be drawn into and all the tricks would have to serve, the tricks are not just there for trick's sakes, when there is a trick at the end and i won't divulge it. >> rose: right. >> it is entirely functional to the serena side of the novel, so i want the flesh and blood and i want the pure pleasure of playing the became. >> rose: are you surprised at the commercial success of your novels? >> well, i didn't really have any until i
serena loves to read novels and have people in it like herself and she likes novels set in london and around about now, in 1972. she wants to see herself reflected back in, and her world reflected back and that is an impulse i actually share too. >> tom, her lover hates all of that kind of writing, he likes, you know, thomas p. ihchot and he likes john bath and gaddis, the great american experimental writers. >> they hate each other's fiction. so i thought the purpose of sweet...
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have a novel in the jury. when you start writing your first novel is a new experience you get the names and say you have brown eyes and then you get to page 50 or 100 probably nobody's ever going to read this. when i got to that stage, i thought the heck with that. i'll finish the thing. they have that streak of obstinate sea this is now going going to finish it. >> in the news business were discouraged from making things better. and of course you have to make everything out. [laughter] >> almost everything. ever since i is benito, the first book i researched. i was born in 1949 so i have no memories and so i had to find out what everyday life is like during the war for people in the u.k., which is for the story of a set. so i researched it and never sent then i realized that that works for me to write a novel, but with a factual background that is very much imparted in the story and it helps me to get the book a kind of texture. it's not everybody's way, but interweaving the fictional story of their side effe
have a novel in the jury. when you start writing your first novel is a new experience you get the names and say you have brown eyes and then you get to page 50 or 100 probably nobody's ever going to read this. when i got to that stage, i thought the heck with that. i'll finish the thing. they have that streak of obstinate sea this is now going going to finish it. >> in the news business were discouraged from making things better. and of course you have to make everything out. [laughter]...
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his previous novel, the over tin conspiracy by glen beck and two people. sometimes you see books by two people but usually not three people. committee writing. who wrote the book? i wrote the book. these guys -- i sort of supervised. it was a team effort. to call him and authors, he might dispute this but it is sort of part of his brand marketing. he has a newsletter, a cable show, his own little media empire. whether fox chased him out or not i am not clear but he is very cobb--popular in his books sell. he writes about christmas, they sell, he writes about politics and they sell. >> prior to taking this interview we asked for sarah weinman and bob minzesheimer's picks. bob minzesheimer, one of your picks was a national book award finalist, have an hours's the yellow birds. >> booktv doesn't do a lot of fiction but yellow birds is the novel. kevin powers served in iraq. he joined the army. one of these incredible stories, he grew up in richmond, va. joined the army out of high school because that is what people in his family did, served in iraq and came b
his previous novel, the over tin conspiracy by glen beck and two people. sometimes you see books by two people but usually not three people. committee writing. who wrote the book? i wrote the book. these guys -- i sort of supervised. it was a team effort. to call him and authors, he might dispute this but it is sort of part of his brand marketing. he has a newsletter, a cable show, his own little media empire. whether fox chased him out or not i am not clear but he is very cobb--popular in his...
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a novel about war and destruction toward and what war does to people. it's about two young kids from virginia. he says it's not all that autobiographical about what happened to him in iraq. but it's a great sense of what it was like to be fair for people who have not been there and it's called the yellow birds. it's a remarkable accomplishment. >> host: sarah weinman, david nassau's, the pastry art. >> guest: i'm almost done reading it. for whatever reason i read fiction must bashers anon diction, especially because it's a thorough and comprehensive biography of joseph t. kennedy, the father of president kennedy, many other kennedys heading the sec. he was the master to london in the hollywood film industry was very active in the roosevelt administration. sometimes the relationship between him and the president could take contentious and i feel nassau has done an excellent job of putting together so much research. he spent within six years on this book going to archive after archive, crosschecking, fat checking. one thing that seems to improve defensive
a novel about war and destruction toward and what war does to people. it's about two young kids from virginia. he says it's not all that autobiographical about what happened to him in iraq. but it's a great sense of what it was like to be fair for people who have not been there and it's called the yellow birds. it's a remarkable accomplishment. >> host: sarah weinman, david nassau's, the pastry art. >> guest: i'm almost done reading it. for whatever reason i read fiction must...
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it's a script really, a dickens novel is a script. interestingly on the installment question, very often those books were bought by somebody who could read and read outloud to those who couldn't. that's his words were conveyed to the great population who couldn't read anything at all. >> one of the problem that biographers and i count myself as culpable in this, we have in a sense produced dickens as a public celebrity, a public figure. often we neglect the writing itself. but in some sense dickens is responsible for that. he was the first literacy celebrity. the word celebrity comes into the language the year he starts to write david copperfield. he tries to live up to precisely that i am those gairish flashy waste coats that he war, they were the brand dickens that he was deliberately cultivating. >> charlie: david copperfield is obviously auto biographical. >> in disguise. the disguise is perhaps less marked in that novel than in some of the others. it would be impossible to take a single page of dickens and treat it simply as a mi
it's a script really, a dickens novel is a script. interestingly on the installment question, very often those books were bought by somebody who could read and read outloud to those who couldn't. that's his words were conveyed to the great population who couldn't read anything at all. >> one of the problem that biographers and i count myself as culpable in this, we have in a sense produced dickens as a public celebrity, a public figure. often we neglect the writing itself. but in some...
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the previous novel, which is by glenn beck and two other people. james patterson is a great example of that. you usually don't see three people. i asked him who wrote the book he said what do you mean? i did. they did the keyboard it is a team effort. to call him an author he may disputed but it is part of old brand marketing. newsletter, cable show he is his own little media empire i am not sure it and how he left fox but the is still popular. he writes about christmas our politics and it sells. >> host: prior to this interview from sarah weinman and bob minzesheimer we ask you for your picks. one was a national book award finalist "the yellow birds." >> booktv does not do a lot of fiction. he served in iraq and joined the army and a group in richmond, virginia and joined out of is goal put had a love of poetry. he went undergraduate and he wrote a beautiful novel about horror and destruction and what it does. to young kids from virginia it is not all that autobiographical but it is a great sense of what it was like to be there for those who have
the previous novel, which is by glenn beck and two other people. james patterson is a great example of that. you usually don't see three people. i asked him who wrote the book he said what do you mean? i did. they did the keyboard it is a team effort. to call him an author he may disputed but it is part of old brand marketing. newsletter, cable show he is his own little media empire i am not sure it and how he left fox but the is still popular. he writes about christmas our politics and it...
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it's a novel tea thing, and the novelty of the old new place wears off, and the question is how many people really overall are gambling. are there more people gambling and producing revenues or are the same people going to the newer venues, and are they expanding the pot. the move has been based on new revenues, and more money, and we are going to pay for more services and will they be able to do it. >> and you have saturation and recession. if you have saturation, then you have a gathering of casinos, and there will be so much room and so many gamblers, so there is the saturation. and like always, in any entertainment industry, recession, recession, the nature of the economy depends on the success of people having extra money to gamble with, and what happens is the poorest tend to be the ones who try to gamble. >> that was the big opposition. >> saturation is going to be a major problem. >> right. >>> transportation has been a big issue and is going to be a big issue in the coming year. prince georges and montgomery county leaders are pushing for transportation money. they want the
it's a novel tea thing, and the novelty of the old new place wears off, and the question is how many people really overall are gambling. are there more people gambling and producing revenues or are the same people going to the newer venues, and are they expanding the pot. the move has been based on new revenues, and more money, and we are going to pay for more services and will they be able to do it. >> and you have saturation and recession. if you have saturation, then you have a...
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his first novel is ready. we'll catch up and hear how sustainable food keeps a local restaurant sustained, even through a recession. i'm susan sikora and that is on "bay area focus" next. . >>> welcome to the show. i'm susan sikora. good writing is a find in tv drama. for eight seasons, the series l.a. law was appointment tv. it was about a firm of attorneys, including a married couple played by real life husband and wife, michael tucker and jill ikenberry. take a look. >> okay. let's go. >> um, what about, you know, sex? >> and? >> stewart issue we have to ask. will it -- stewart, we have to ask. will it kill him? >> of course not. heart attack victims can lead normal six error lives. >> sounds great. >> normal is okay. anything more than that -- . >> and? >> stewart, this is our doctor, we have to be candid. he tends to be rigorous. >> how rigorous? >> he usually perspires. >> try to avoid physicians where you're on your -- positions on your arms. >> no positions on the arms. >> no hot -- no hot or cold show
his first novel is ready. we'll catch up and hear how sustainable food keeps a local restaurant sustained, even through a recession. i'm susan sikora and that is on "bay area focus" next. . >>> welcome to the show. i'm susan sikora. good writing is a find in tv drama. for eight seasons, the series l.a. law was appointment tv. it was about a firm of attorneys, including a married couple played by real life husband and wife, michael tucker and jill ikenberry. take a look....
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mocha back to spotlight on our novel just a reminder that my guest on the show today is nick good almost a fantasy and science fiction writer he's russian living in the states today and he's pretty successful as a scientist and as a writer nick you you you originally you were scientists would talk about it a bit later then you became a writer you wrote science fiction and now you switch to fantasy and yet you said it's not for the money is it true that you don't want to be in the bracket it helps you feel free and it helps you just be to be more creative yeah exactly so this is so you one of the you're a rare breed push person who does make this is a successful writer and doesn't want to make it like make a living or well i'm making a living out of the herd of course but i am free to do to write whatever i want whatever i see fit whatever i see is the most important for my readers for russian readers and european readers also also my books made their way into the european market. however you mention the brett brackets there should be brackets of course but. the real writer can do a real
mocha back to spotlight on our novel just a reminder that my guest on the show today is nick good almost a fantasy and science fiction writer he's russian living in the states today and he's pretty successful as a scientist and as a writer nick you you you originally you were scientists would talk about it a bit later then you became a writer you wrote science fiction and now you switch to fantasy and yet you said it's not for the money is it true that you don't want to be in the bracket it...
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novel. anyway, and, by the way, we're all familiar with the president walking around. i don't know if it's still the case in the missile age walking around always with an airman with him with a black bag, like a doctor's bag, and there are the codes. the codes are changed every day how to arm the bombs on a particular day. these two bombs came down, and the conventional explosions went off, just went off. miraclously didn't hurt anybody, but split the bomb open means that the plutonium, the most deadliest substance that we can imagine, all came out. the bomb split open and it all came out, just a little black cloud. miraclously, normally when you're at the seaside, the wind blows off from the sea. for some reason, that day the wind blew off the land. most of the plutonium was blown out into the med -- mediterranean, not necessarily a great thing either, but better than landing on these poor people in the town. some of the plutonium is spread all around so the people from the town left. they
novel. anyway, and, by the way, we're all familiar with the president walking around. i don't know if it's still the case in the missile age walking around always with an airman with him with a black bag, like a doctor's bag, and there are the codes. the codes are changed every day how to arm the bombs on a particular day. these two bombs came down, and the conventional explosions went off, just went off. miraclously didn't hurt anybody, but split the bomb open means that the plutonium, the...
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i believe in regular people and their ability to effect change is in world. >> host: are your novels popular with the military. >> guest: it's interesting. ten years ago, i got an e-mail from a guy on a submarine, and he said to me -- right after 9/11. he said i'm on a submarine, can't tell you where i am, but your book really meant a lot to me. took my mind off things, and just blew me -- >> host: which book? >> guest: the first counsel, a book about a president's daughter in the white house and the secret tunnels under the white house, and he liked. and he wrote to me. and i called my publisher up and said, can i get 10,000 books donated to the u.s. so? and they said, sure, that was so easy. and i called another publisher and i said, can i get ten thousand books, they said sure. so we had 40,000 books donated to the uso, and i tell you, i never -- whether it was because of that or other ropes, the troops love thrillers, and they said we don't want to send literary fiction, they want thrillers. and so when i got there it was amazing how many readers we had there who just really like
i believe in regular people and their ability to effect change is in world. >> host: are your novels popular with the military. >> guest: it's interesting. ten years ago, i got an e-mail from a guy on a submarine, and he said to me -- right after 9/11. he said i'm on a submarine, can't tell you where i am, but your book really meant a lot to me. took my mind off things, and just blew me -- >> host: which book? >> guest: the first counsel, a book about a president's...
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it's not like an 1800 novel. you know? you put another novel from the time period next to it. and those two books don't even seem alike. i mean, the dude interrupts the flow of his novel to have a play, to have characters talking like a play. he interrupts his novel to suddenly have a disposition on whales, as told through the size and shapes of books, you know? this portfolio, that, you know? and it seemed to be like something that had been a mutation of literature. because i'd never seen anything like it. and, i kind of was interested in the actual metaphor of the boat, the pequod. >> which he named after the indians, right? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. i did not expect an 1800 writer to describe the kind of america that i had grown up with. i had grown up in a place called lemon terrace, new jersey, where the guy down the street was uruguayan, the woman across the street was korean, the person around the corner was egyptian. there were dominicans. there were african americans. there were white folks. and i felt like we were growing up in this tiny little pequod. you know? this real
it's not like an 1800 novel. you know? you put another novel from the time period next to it. and those two books don't even seem alike. i mean, the dude interrupts the flow of his novel to have a play, to have characters talking like a play. he interrupts his novel to suddenly have a disposition on whales, as told through the size and shapes of books, you know? this portfolio, that, you know? and it seemed to be like something that had been a mutation of literature. because i'd never seen...
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in 2011 it was estimated that one in four of all hardcover suspense thriller novels sold with the bad mr. patterson. selling over 300 billion copies of his books worldwide, that's 300 million copies. he's also the the first other to achieve 5 million e-book sales and by now has probably hit in william as we sit in this room. what is impressive about all of this though is that the successes and based solely on a similar site the ever popular alice crossed in the women's murder club at michael bennet series. he's also the current best-selling author and and a young adult and middle grade categories. it's not just about his success either. he's won the coveted edgar award, the bca mystery guild ruler of the year award from an internist thriller of the year award from the reader's digest readers choice award and the children's choice but councils children's choice award. i got through that. it has been said of james patterson and his work, no writer has ever created so many lasting tiered there's poor grasp the interlocking power of thought and emotion. he pours forth stories that engross
in 2011 it was estimated that one in four of all hardcover suspense thriller novels sold with the bad mr. patterson. selling over 300 billion copies of his books worldwide, that's 300 million copies. he's also the the first other to achieve 5 million e-book sales and by now has probably hit in william as we sit in this room. what is impressive about all of this though is that the successes and based solely on a similar site the ever popular alice crossed in the women's murder club at michael...
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the latest novel in the harry bosch series is set in south l.a. during the riots in 1992. he is also up next year with a new documentary called "sound of redemption, the frank morgan project. hear a slight preview. ♪ ♪ >> i cannot think of frank morgan without thinking of redemption. as he recorded those things, he was making up for lost time, try to leave something behind that would inspire somebody or make their life better. tavis: we will get to "the black box." tell me about that black man, frank morgan. >> frank has a wonderful story. i got to know him a little before he passed away. he overcame a lot to make beautiful music. he was pretty well known within the jazz world, but i do not think enough people know his story. that was the impetus to try to put together a film about it. tavis: what is the story line that drives you to produce a documentary? >> he was the air apparent to charlie byrd parton. he went down a bad pass. got into drugs. , ended up spending about 28 years in prison. between the first up, and his second, 30 years went by. when he came back, he
the latest novel in the harry bosch series is set in south l.a. during the riots in 1992. he is also up next year with a new documentary called "sound of redemption, the frank morgan project. hear a slight preview. ♪ ♪ >> i cannot think of frank morgan without thinking of redemption. as he recorded those things, he was making up for lost time, try to leave something behind that would inspire somebody or make their life better. tavis: we will get to "the black box." tell...
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. >> someone sold photographs of prince harry naked -- >> one of the hottest novels around. >> what went wrong, why now? >> isaac is forcing some changes at the republican convention. >> manufacture. >> what do you mean shut up? >> four more years! >> thank you! >> christopher stevens and three other embassy staff, they are dead. we will bring those to justice who committed these murders. >> all the effects of hurricane sandy already. sandy's carved a path of destruction across the eastern seaboard. we can't fully secure the crane until the wind dies down.
. >> someone sold photographs of prince harry naked -- >> one of the hottest novels around. >> what went wrong, why now? >> isaac is forcing some changes at the republican convention. >> manufacture. >> what do you mean shut up? >> four more years! >> thank you! >> christopher stevens and three other embassy staff, they are dead. we will bring those to justice who committed these murders. >> all the effects of hurricane sandy already....
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i tried to revive my french by reading a novel. i chose a small book "around the world in 180 days qghts. first pub -- i slowly made my way through the book. my french was good enough i enjoyed the story and as a historian i appreciated the period detail. especially the nature of the bet that sends protagonist racing around the world. at the london club, he marks offhand edly that scheduled travel schedules could take a world around the 180 dares. they said prove it. and it was conceivable by the late 19th century inspect the age of sail getting around the world had taking years on the speed of my sailing ship would have lost his bed. it was the invention of steam power and the creation of regimented european empire around the globe the opening of the suez cable and the emerge of commercial travel services that made it just possible by the 1870s do the global circuit in 80 days. the second thing that impressed me the story was how the material development that sped up global travel required a dramatically increased use of natural r
i tried to revive my french by reading a novel. i chose a small book "around the world in 180 days qghts. first pub -- i slowly made my way through the book. my french was good enough i enjoyed the story and as a historian i appreciated the period detail. especially the nature of the bet that sends protagonist racing around the world. at the london club, he marks offhand edly that scheduled travel schedules could take a world around the 180 dares. they said prove it. and it was conceivable...
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. >> it's like right out of a spy novel. do you think that john mcafee is fill in belize, or did he indicate that he has a plan to get out of that country? >>. >> there are reports coming that we cannot confirm from his own blogging, that says that he has left bell east ease, but, again, we have tried to confirm that a number of different ways, and we vbt been able to do that. the belief is that. >> great work. martin savage live in belize for us. thank you so much.
. >> it's like right out of a spy novel. do you think that john mcafee is fill in belize, or did he indicate that he has a plan to get out of that country? >>. >> there are reports coming that we cannot confirm from his own blogging, that says that he has left bell east ease, but, again, we have tried to confirm that a number of different ways, and we vbt been able to do that. the belief is that. >> great work. martin savage live in belize for us. thank you so much.
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which is full of all the things mentioned in the novel. the diaries. and people have been going in to shops asking to buy this particular handbag which is mentioned in the book. the museum is entirely made up of things from the imagination. these people, objects never existed. so you get to the museum, look at the the state, the duchess lipton, it's all in the museum. it's complete fake. so they go in there. they read these novels. the idea, the museum is an artifact of a fictional book. the fictional book is a real physical life in the museum. >> and that is the creativity. librarians. >> of a really wonderful creation and a library that people could create once they saw in their minds and a book. the greatest criticism when you see a movie that was made from a book. no, that's not what i thought it was like. everybody does that. it should have been like that. the creation stations. it's been a lot of time. >> there are analogies, that's for sure. adopting any book is been published with they -- someone in the private sector sang you put my candy bar
which is full of all the things mentioned in the novel. the diaries. and people have been going in to shops asking to buy this particular handbag which is mentioned in the book. the museum is entirely made up of things from the imagination. these people, objects never existed. so you get to the museum, look at the the state, the duchess lipton, it's all in the museum. it's complete fake. so they go in there. they read these novels. the idea, the museum is an artifact of a fictional book. the...
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he requested a transfer, and this was the kind of thing that could not be made up in a novel. no one would believe it. two hours after he was killed, -- two hours the papers came through for him to transfer the american army. >> out of the three that came back, what kind of person they pursue? >> well, he was a man who was an editor and had been a newspaper man from the time he was in high school. the greenwich, connecticut newspaper. and he came back and went to work for the voice of america. but he very quickly was diverted to a new veterans organization. it is kind of an interesting story as well. it was integrated. >> the american legion? >> yes, that's right. the american legion. anyway, that kept him occupy for couple of years. and then he had publishing and at the end of his life was a freelance writer. he was a writer. the other two became an architect. he was a very good artist. he was an ornithologist and would draw pictures of birds. he became part of international affairs. so he was interested in politics all the way around. looking for the american government. tho
he requested a transfer, and this was the kind of thing that could not be made up in a novel. no one would believe it. two hours after he was killed, -- two hours the papers came through for him to transfer the american army. >> out of the three that came back, what kind of person they pursue? >> well, he was a man who was an editor and had been a newspaper man from the time he was in high school. the greenwich, connecticut newspaper. and he came back and went to work for the voice...
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as a matter of fact, in my novel that margaret spoke about, about jazz, in it, billy farrell, who is one of a very large number of characters, is a jazz pianist and before he begins playing a black leprechaun appears to him, mr. mcginniss so you can assume it's the ghost of mr. mcginniss. as margaret said, in 1949 we came to the south bronx, which was an irish neighborhood, mostly. i was sort of a spaced-out kid, destined obviously to be a poet. i was this big at 13 and i was a good rollerskater and the kids were amazed and they befriended me. after a while, they recognized that i had some sort of athletic ability and because i was so spaced out, they mistook it for great courage and if they pushed me, i pushed them back. it was just like a game. so they took to me and asked me to join the shamrocks. i even changed my name from ed vega to ed mcveigh. and this is how they passed me off because most of the teams they played were other irish kids. this was a regular football team so, consequently, they listed me as eddie mcveigh. it was great fun and my friends were jimmy flynn, paddy o
as a matter of fact, in my novel that margaret spoke about, about jazz, in it, billy farrell, who is one of a very large number of characters, is a jazz pianist and before he begins playing a black leprechaun appears to him, mr. mcginniss so you can assume it's the ghost of mr. mcginniss. as margaret said, in 1949 we came to the south bronx, which was an irish neighborhood, mostly. i was sort of a spaced-out kid, destined obviously to be a poet. i was this big at 13 and i was a good...
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and any great movie, any great book that you've read, so i novelized biography, it's a creation, and artistic creation. but i would say other than just the bare facts as you saw in that book, anything that's written about her necessarily 100 years later has to have some degree of projection of whoever is writing. so what i have tried to do is show her as much as a man can get into a woman's head or into a woman's heart, show her going through the various struggles and surmounting a lot of these difficulties that she was able to surmount in her life. what it did for her inside and out a broader to this place. that whole catholic world reveres her and explained that in such a way to tell the story to people who find it an enjoyable experience, to read and encounter. >> for more information on this and other cities on the local content vehicles to work, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> rachel cox, who was robbie cox? >> robbie cox is
and any great movie, any great book that you've read, so i novelized biography, it's a creation, and artistic creation. but i would say other than just the bare facts as you saw in that book, anything that's written about her necessarily 100 years later has to have some degree of projection of whoever is writing. so what i have tried to do is show her as much as a man can get into a woman's head or into a woman's heart, show her going through the various struggles and surmounting a lot of these...
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how can you sit in a cafe and write a novel? we all have our process. i think the interesting things to talk about is the process how you do it because we all do it differently. i don't run with the bulls or sit in cafes. this is the way i do it. there are many ways to do it and you have to find your own way. >> around the web i googled through me to see what it looked like i saw the big bridge and it looked industrialized. >> there really is love. >> i did. a real place and how you pick the location. i have family in japan and my kids are are in a bilingual program in san francisco that's japanese. >> i bet she speaks japanese better than i do. my kids might not me. >> when i had the gun i knew there was a [inaudible] and i started writing down things and i thought in my mind's eye, i think it looks like this. and it would be like that i had a small village in mind. there was a part in time i thought, i could go back to japan and go there and see how it looked. i had in the book and in my heart what i thought it was, i almost knew that if i had gone ba
how can you sit in a cafe and write a novel? we all have our process. i think the interesting things to talk about is the process how you do it because we all do it differently. i don't run with the bulls or sit in cafes. this is the way i do it. there are many ways to do it and you have to find your own way. >> around the web i googled through me to see what it looked like i saw the big bridge and it looked industrialized. >> there really is love. >> i did. a real place and...
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[applause] >> this is a scene from my novel [inaudible]. it seemed like a great opportunity to get to do this here. okay. what time is the first reader anyway? i didn't like bars this crowded. someone elbode me in the back. when i turned around i didn't know who the elbow belong said. relax. i didn't expect there to be this many people i thought they would be at the bar with the travel writers. i thought they the be with the hip sters i guess we are not hip sters we can't guess who they are into. we lessened the hipster intimidation factor and picked out the smart guy. this year we selected postmen pausal writers on the meaning of life. here i was, the city never fails to surprise me much the crowd was quieting. people were pointing toward the stage. i woman of 60 clamored on to it. she had silver hair and had a long velvet skirt. i'm senora watson. there was applause. she lowered her head slightly to indicate her humility. i must confess i was surprised to be invited tonight. i'm embarrassed to say i didn't know young people were drunkenly
[applause] >> this is a scene from my novel [inaudible]. it seemed like a great opportunity to get to do this here. okay. what time is the first reader anyway? i didn't like bars this crowded. someone elbode me in the back. when i turned around i didn't know who the elbow belong said. relax. i didn't expect there to be this many people i thought they would be at the bar with the travel writers. i thought they the be with the hip sters i guess we are not hip sters we can't guess who they...
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martin is the author of 13 novels. he is the author of the memoir, experience, two collections of short stories and six books nonfiction, including the second plane. he was literary editor of the new statesman and served as the prefer of creative writing at the center for new writing at the university of manchester until 2011. please help me welcome, martin amis. [music] >> good evening. elmore leonard. let us attempt to narrow it down. elmore leonard is the literary genius who writes, re-readable thrillers. he belongs there not in the main stream but to the general on -- fiction on the whole relies on plot, has only a dozen plots to read. boy meets girl, good meets bad and so on. but mr. leonard has only one movement all his thrillers or re-workers of tales, in which death roams the land, usually miami or detroit, disguised as money. nevertheless, mr. leonard possesses gifts, timing and phrasing, ear and eye, that even the most snobbish masters of the main stream must earnestly covet. and the question is, how does he
martin is the author of 13 novels. he is the author of the memoir, experience, two collections of short stories and six books nonfiction, including the second plane. he was literary editor of the new statesman and served as the prefer of creative writing at the center for new writing at the university of manchester until 2011. please help me welcome, martin amis. [music] >> good evening. elmore leonard. let us attempt to narrow it down. elmore leonard is the literary genius who writes,...
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gaslamp is the novels running choke. true comments on a small part of the journeys total cost but we present-day readers quickly realized that the joke is on us. we are notoriously the first generation that is realized with a planetary bill for centuries of burning fossil fuel is going to be. and verne's air, call was a cost of essential part of modern progress. ya fogg's steam powered exploits set of hybrid european imperialism represent the face of the best that truly is history, over and done with the airplanes have replaced the coal burning engines and ships that hurtled fogg around the world. the empires that protected some people at the expense of others have been replaced with other political regimes. it's now difficult across the surface of the world in 80 days, though it's easy to fly around in hours, if you can afford the ticket and get the passport and visa. when i returned from sea, back on land, i looked for history of around the world travel. there was none. so i wrote one. now, i very quickly decided very
gaslamp is the novels running choke. true comments on a small part of the journeys total cost but we present-day readers quickly realized that the joke is on us. we are notoriously the first generation that is realized with a planetary bill for centuries of burning fossil fuel is going to be. and verne's air, call was a cost of essential part of modern progress. ya fogg's steam powered exploits set of hybrid european imperialism represent the face of the best that truly is history, over and...
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what i really want to do is write history in the form of a novel. all the characters are real, the events are real, there's nothing fictionalize but i wanted to tell it from a novelist's perspective. it has at its center a mad man. i originally wanted to have mad mad in the tunnel for the subtitle of the book. my editor from on that. i am using the term not the way nixon will later use it to describe his foreign policy but in a way that holden caulfield described himself in the classic novel capturing the right which documents itself a kind of progression towards nervous breakdown. richard nixon is undergoing a nervous breakdown during the story. he is thinking of himself in that sense of being mad and all the connotation that term has and he knows he is on the cusp of making or breaking his national political career. moment when he rescues his political career from that moment onward. they're the noir feeling to the book to large extent and that has to do with the subject matter. richard nixon is a noir character, kind of dark in terms of his own p
what i really want to do is write history in the form of a novel. all the characters are real, the events are real, there's nothing fictionalize but i wanted to tell it from a novelist's perspective. it has at its center a mad man. i originally wanted to have mad mad in the tunnel for the subtitle of the book. my editor from on that. i am using the term not the way nixon will later use it to describe his foreign policy but in a way that holden caulfield described himself in the classic novel...
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he watched a copy of the novel being printed expressly for him down in gold and embossed with his name on the cover. he then met jules verne's grandson who escorted him to grandfather's grave. they're surrounded by local boy scouts he later wreath with the message in memory of jules verne, from his greatest admirer . avoided aviation in order to make some kind of point about their place in the world. bicyclist who were not from the western imperial powers began to rebound and the bicycle as a peaceful way to see the world. certain cycle the world from 1901-1904, gathering admiring newspaper accounts as he did so, but because he did not publish his own narrative of the journey, he remained better known within asia and beyond. later pleased to welcome to japan three fellow asian cyclist, a trio of young indian and he did a world tour on bicycles to show indias equality with other nations. the three young men were members of the bombay weightlifting club , so they were in very good shape. when they left, on bicycles and october 23rd returning in march 19285 years later having covered 44,0
he watched a copy of the novel being printed expressly for him down in gold and embossed with his name on the cover. he then met jules verne's grandson who escorted him to grandfather's grave. they're surrounded by local boy scouts he later wreath with the message in memory of jules verne, from his greatest admirer . avoided aviation in order to make some kind of point about their place in the world. bicyclist who were not from the western imperial powers began to rebound and the bicycle as a...
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and finally, we get to yorktown, our last novel on washington. it's an extraordinary gamble. the country's exhausted. washington can't win the war by direct assault. he's sitting outside new york. the royal navy has so much power that he can't capture manhattan. one ship of a line had more artillery firepower than the entire american army. people forget how powerful these ships were for their time. and so he's sitting there, and at a time when there are no helicopters and no cars and no television and no computers, he gets a note from the french army which is sitting in rhode island which says the admiral of the french navy sitting in the caribbean believes that he could come north for six weeks. now, the entire opportunity was created because washington had had the courage over a year earlier to send one-third of his army to the south to fight general worn wallis and wear -- cornwallis and wear him out. cornwallis won a victory in greensboro, north carolina, that cost him so much that he said to his staff two more victories like this, and we won't have an army left. and they
and finally, we get to yorktown, our last novel on washington. it's an extraordinary gamble. the country's exhausted. washington can't win the war by direct assault. he's sitting outside new york. the royal navy has so much power that he can't capture manhattan. one ship of a line had more artillery firepower than the entire american army. people forget how powerful these ships were for their time. and so he's sitting there, and at a time when there are no helicopters and no cars and no...
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>> dana: the third thing teach people how not to write a novel. it read the first chapter and thought it was so poorly done i couldn't get through it and i went back to my "weekly standard." >> dana: let me ask you something. >> andrea: you have a good opinion on this. is this that men have become so femmennized and women become more masculine where they read a book where a man has take charge role and tie women up, women love it? >> greg: romance novels have been around forever. fabio on the cover of many books. some i own to this day. hey fabs! this is a for fect metaphor for today's universities. i don't know what metaphor is. if you learn to write write er ratca, at least you learned something and you can make money on it. that beats gender studies. i applied for a job in late '80s and got "it" penthouse magazine and i wrote a lot about cutoffs. dab >> dana: he applied for a job at penthouse letters and he got it. >> greg: but everybody gets a job at penthouse letters. they send you a folder filled with examples of the letters and they give yo
>> dana: the third thing teach people how not to write a novel. it read the first chapter and thought it was so poorly done i couldn't get through it and i went back to my "weekly standard." >> dana: let me ask you something. >> andrea: you have a good opinion on this. is this that men have become so femmennized and women become more masculine where they read a book where a man has take charge role and tie women up, women love it? >> greg: romance novels have...
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so a novelized biography is a creation. other than just the bare facts as you saw in that book, anything that's written about her necessarily 300 years later has to have some degree of fiction to it and some degree of projection to whoever's writing it. so what i've tried to do is show her as much as a man can get into a woman's head or a woman's heart, to show her going through these various struggles and surmounting a lot of these difficulties that she was able to surmount. what it did for her inside and how it brought her to this place that the whole that reveres her and explain to people. i suppose love her. >> on a recent visit to albany, new york, with the help of our partner, time warner cable, booktv explored the literary and cultural atmosphere of the city. albany, known as one of the most populist cities in the u.s. in 1810, is home to several institutions of higher learning including the university at albany, state university of new york, the albany law school which is the fourth oldest law school in the u.s. and
so a novelized biography is a creation. other than just the bare facts as you saw in that book, anything that's written about her necessarily 300 years later has to have some degree of fiction to it and some degree of projection to whoever's writing it. so what i've tried to do is show her as much as a man can get into a woman's head or a woman's heart, to show her going through these various struggles and surmounting a lot of these difficulties that she was able to surmount. what it did for...
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the gasland is a novel's running joke. true, it's only a small part of the journey's total cost but with present-day readers realize the joke is on us. we are notoriously the first generation that has realized with the planetary bill for centuries of burning fossil fuels is going to be. in fern's area coal was a costly but essential part of modern progress. steam-powered exploit sat at the height of the european imperialism represents the phase of the past that truly is history meaning over and done with. airplanes have replaced a coal burning engines and ships that hurtle fog around the world, empires are protected some people including fog at the expense of others have been replaced with other political regimes. it's not difficult across the surface of the world in 80 days though you can fly around in our city can afford the ticket and get the password and the visas. when i returned from sea, back on land, i looks for histories around the world travel. there was none so i wrote one. now, i very quickly decided early on i
the gasland is a novel's running joke. true, it's only a small part of the journey's total cost but with present-day readers realize the joke is on us. we are notoriously the first generation that has realized with the planetary bill for centuries of burning fossil fuels is going to be. in fern's area coal was a costly but essential part of modern progress. steam-powered exploit sat at the height of the european imperialism represents the phase of the past that truly is history meaning over and...